Category: blogz

so you call me crassly egotistical and then get huffy when I call you a fool?

Posted on by jessamyn

It’s becoming a bit of a tired meme. Insult all bloggers using overgeneralizations and snarky language, closely track posts about your article in the blogosphere, report back, quoting nasty remarks and say this proves your point that all bloggers are just the way you said they are. I’m as worried about civil discourse as the next person — the lack of it on Council lists sometimes disturbs me — but I’ve also always thought that the best way to ensure that things stayed civil was not to call total strangers names in a public forum in the first place. Perhaps it’s just me. [thanks rikhei]

Digital Odyssey Blog

Posted on by jessamyn

This blog has some nice write-ups of talks given at the Digital Odyssey one-day conference in Toronto this past Friday. Joe Janes gave the keynote “Extending Service to the Increasingly Digital User” which was blogged by two separate people: here and here. This highlights one of the things I like best about the blogosphere generally. By reading what two different people thought was important and/or relevant about Janes’ talk, I get a better overview of the talk than by just reading one account. I hope the increase in conference blogging we’ve been seeing allows for this sort of overlap on important speeches/talks/programs.

webjunction has a blog

Posted on by jessamyn

WebJunction has a blog. I mentioned them a few weeks back taking issue with some of their suggestions for smaller libraries and got a fairly nice note back from them encouraging direct feedback on things that could help them. Apparently they’re soliciting a lot of input in making some decisions about design and usability issues. If you use WJ at all, consider giving them your ideas. [technobib]